GNU bug report logs - #3888
Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:35:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 3888 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 3888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific,	documentation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:12:13 +0300

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 3888 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:25:38 -0400
> 
> I think, as a temporary solution, we should make the docstrings of all
> the affected functions and variables the same.

This would also need a change in make-docfile, to warn about
duplicate, but different doc strings for the same symbol.  Otherwise,
the doc strings will diverge again after a while.
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